Erlang

There are dozens of us! Erlang is a great language, elixir just feels kinda flimsy and over-macro’d to me somehow.

by cyberpunk · Oct 6, 2026

It's a general purpose language (as mentioned several times) and compiling to js eg. for lustre webapps (elm-ish). I've contributed to the js compiler once only and can't find a…

by Blackarea · Oct 6, 2026

The old one had an inferior implementation, but that is unrelated to the output format. We also have a new Erlang source code generator that is used predominantly in the compile…

by lpil · Oct 6, 2026

> Like at some point the neatness of doing all loops as recursion wears off and it's just tiring. Odd, but I believe you, lol. Elixir's list comprehensions take a `:reduce` opti…

by sodapopcan · Oct 6, 2026

Erlang is my favorite functional language out of all the ones I've tried. The matchers, guards, etc are all done very well. But I don't like functional. I used to think it was c…

by mahboi · Oct 6, 2026

I was fortunate enough to use Erlang professionally for a couple of years. I agree: the syntax is quite comfortable.

by macintux · Oct 6, 2026